FOUNDER FUEL: Fuel your resilience with little wins each day
It takes a special kind of resilience to be an entrepreneur – we all know running a startup is a marathon, not a sprint – so we need to make sure it stays topped up to go the distance. This little habit is all about doing just that. Resilience was rated by founders as the most important skill or characteristic needed as an entrepreneur, with 92% of founders selecting it over problem-solving, motivation and even communication
FOUNDER FUEL: Focus on what matters with your Big Rocks every week
Time is a fixed resource, which makes your time as a founder a precious asset. Through this lens, perhaps our most important job is to define which priorities get our time and focus. Once we’ve done that we can make time for these priorities. That’s what our Big Rocks FounderFuel habit is all about. It’s not easy though… This ruthless focus is a particularly tough ask of entrepreneurs. More often than not, we’re wearing multiple hats
FOUNDER FUEL: Let’s give rest and recovery a rebrand in your head…
As an entrepreneur there is always more that we could do. How many times can you hear yourself thinking “If I can just get this finished” or “I should just do this one last thing” at the end of your day or week? Maybe it’s the craving to achieve just a bit more and get that hit of dopamine for ticking something else off the list. Or perhaps it’s that misplaced sense of guilt that
FOUNDER FUEL: Is planning always the best for your team? The conundrum of perceivers and judgers
Do some of your team start to get really uncomfortable when you start changing their plans? Or others start twitching when you are trying to agree to deadlines? This is the conundrum of the Judger and Perceiver personality traits, and it could well be having an impact on your project deliverables and team dynamics. It turns out that whether we plan every detail of a holiday, or just love to go with the flow, it has
Featured in Inc Magazine: Building through burnout to emerge stronger in business
Big shout out to Cameron Albert-Deich of Inc magazine for this moving story on founder wellbeing featuring weare3Sixty - amazing to see it as the main homepage story too! It is a bold and heart-warming founder story punctuated by the panic attacks, sleepless nights, anxiety and derailed health that we hear so much about from founders here in the UK. But this story really focuses on how positive changes can make us STRONGER as founders (something
Founder Fuel: Feed your inner introvert or extrovert to get the best from you and your team
Ever wonder why one of the smartest people in your team is staying silent in a meeting on a subject they know about? Or why someone else just doesn’t seem to want to stop talking? The answer lies on the Introversion Extroversion scale. Understanding the differences between these two can really help team dynamics - even more so now most of us are working remote and interacting on Zoom. In fact, helping your team to simply
Tech Nation boosts founder resilience by launching FounderCircles with weare3Sixty
weare3sixty and Tech Nation have today announced that monthly FounderCircles from weare3Sixty will become part of the Applied AI programme and the FinTech programme this winter. The FounderCircles, which will be facilitated by weare3sixty entrepreneur-focused coaches, are designed to give founders the skills and peer-support required for the rollercoaster ride of running and scaling a startup. Despite the often-glamorised image of entrepreneurship, the reality is very different. In fact, eight out of ten founders often feeling
FounderFuel LIVE with Olympian and World Champion rower Alex Partridge
What can founders learn from athletes when it comes to getting in the zone to perform under pressure? How important is recovery to performing at our best? Why is it bad that we forget to celebrate the wins? And what can we learn from the world's most effective teams that inspires our teams to want to do their very best? These questions and many more were explored with Olympian and World Champion rower Alex Partridge
Founder Fuel: Our wellbeing tech guide for founders
With over 70% of founders saying running a business has affected their physical or mental health, and 68% struggling with regular sleep problems, it comes as no surprise that running a startup is tough. As founders, every single day we choose an amplified lifestyle: high stakes, and the chance to create something great
Founder Fuel: Are negative thoughts downgrading your resilience?
Is it me or are our thoughts just a little bit harder to tame these days? It seems a lot of our founders feel this at the moment. You know the drill… you’re trying to sleep, but your brain has decided “let’s do just one more rehearsal of the [pitch / meeting / awkward conversation – delete as appropriate]”. Or you’re trying to focus on something, but the brain is hijacking you saying, “let’s worry a little